iVillage: Child Stars Gone Bad (and Occasionally Good Again)

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Once a beloved '90s Nickelodeon star, Bynes is now best known for her nutty behavior. It all began in April 2012, when she was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after side-swiping -- of all things -- a police car. In September of that same year, she was accused of leaving the scene of two separate hit-and-runs, and ultimately lost her driving privileges (she was later busted for driving with a suspended license). While the actress, who turns 27 on April 3, was able to escape jail time, she has been unable to avoid bad press. Since moving to New York in late 2012 to start a clothing line, the “retired” starlet has been threatened with eviction, and recently blew up the Internet when she tweeted at singer Drake to “murder” her lady parts. Bynes, who clearly has comedic talent, hasn't acted since 2010's Easy A, and we hope she has us laughing for all the right reasons again soon.

It seems no list of “child stars gone bad” is complete without Lohan. The adorable actress who first wowed us in 1998's "Parent Trap" has seen her once-promising career stagnated by multiple arrests and legal troubles. (We could recount it all for you, but, well, that would take a while, and you can find a pretty exhaustive list of her trouble through 2010 here.) Since then, the 26-year-old has been charged with theft, violating her probation, and eluding the tax man. In spite of it all, Linds, we're rooting for you.

Since "The Partridge Family" ended in 1974, the actor behind Danny Partridge, the family's wisecracking middle child, has seen the inside of a jail cell several times. (Most notably, he was charged with beating and robbing a transvestite prostitute.) He openly struggled with alcohol and drug abuse, as well as a suicide attempt, on his 2005 VH1 reality show Breaking Bonaduce. The 53-year-old is now married to his third wife and hosting a radio show out of Seattle.

Corey Feldman and Corey Haim shot to fame in the '80s, pairing up in movies like "The Lost Boys," "License to Drive" and "Dream a Little Dream." Both boys battled drug addiction, but it was Haim who was still struggling with his demons when they starred in a reality show together, "The Two Coreys," in 2007. Haim passed away in 2010, and though the official cause of death was pneumonia, police say four pill bottles in Haim's name were found at the scene. “He shaped up. He got his act together,” Feldman told Larry King, attributing Haim's attempt at sobriety to his mother's breast cancer diagnosis. "When his mom got ill, it was the first time I ever saw Corey grow up."

After "Full House" ended in 1995, the girl who played sweet Stephanie Tanner succumbed to a drug and alcohol addiction, which she details in her memoir, "unSweetined." “It wasn't so much the allure of [drugs], but the people I was hanging out with," she told People in 2008. "They didn't look like the people in commercials with no teeth. They looked normal and had what I thought were normal lives. It didn't seem scary." Now married for the second time and the mother of two, the 31-year-old says she is “100 percent sober.”

The “I Was Made for Dancing” singer’s career has been plagued by trouble with drugs and the law. Three days before his 18th birthday, Garrett crashed his car while under the influence, leaving his passenger, Roland Winkler, a paraplegic. The friends remained estranged until 1999, when Winkler appeared on an episode of VH1's "Behind the Music" dedicated to the former pop star. “I got past the accident through time, which heals everything,” Garrett said in 2005. “Meeting with Roland was quite healing.” But Garrett's legal troubles have persisted. Since then, he's been arrested multiple times for trying to buy drugs or having them in his possession, most recently in February 2010.